Releasing Indigenous Leaders: Empowerment vs. Enlistment
By emphasizing the empowerment of national leaders, we become more effective in multiplying not only leaders, but also believers and churches, and ultimately church-planting movements.
Searching for the Indigenous Method
Our goal, as formed by scripture and shaped by culture, is to spend time making disciples who make disciples, planting churches that multiply, and training leaders who train leaders.
Implications for Missions from 1 Samuel 13 & 14
The context of the war story in 1 Samuel 13-14 between Israel and the Philistines, and especially the role of Jonathan and his armor-bearer, provide interesting food-for-thought regarding the mission task today.